UFC 328 post-fight press conference.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI sell fights,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, look at the UFC, how f–king boring it is. Like, really, the UFC is so f–king boring. I didn\u2019t even know half the [fighters]. Other than Alex [Pereira], and Alex doesn\u2019t even talk. He\u2019s just big and scary. That guy just knocks everybody out. But other than Alex, it\u2019s just f–king boring, dude.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI go f–king so hard, everybody. And there\u2019s always truth to what I say. But at the end of the day, man, all the hate\u2019s out of me. I need a hate battery charge, so I need a couple days.\u201d<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t the first time Strickland has gone hard pre-fight only to turn around and be the perfect sportsman in the cage with his opponent.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnless you\u2019ve experienced it, you just don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like,\u201d Strickland said. \u201cWhen you go and fight another man, bro, your soul is just exposed. When you\u2019re f–king bleeding and he\u2019s bleeding and I wanna quit, he wants to quit. We don\u2019t wanna be there. You just have this level of respect for one another that transcends race, religion, nationality, country \u2026 After, you kinda become someone\u2019s brother after you and him try to die, win or lose.\u201d<\/p>\n
Strickland delved into the origin of his beef with Chimaev, but went so far as to suggest the whole thing was just a big misunderstanding.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t like to be threatened,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd maybe it\u2019s just who he is as a person, but, when he was in the gym, he was really threatening. Like, he just had that threatening demeanor. And maybe it\u2019s the little man inside me, but when you threaten me, I just wanna f–king murder you. I wanna kill you. And maybe he didn\u2019t take it that way, maybe it\u2019s just his Chechen sense of humor. But always in the gym, he would always try to punk me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe I could have manufactured the whole situation in my head, you guys, to be honest,\u201d Strickland continued. \u201cThere\u2019s times when you\u2019re mentally not well, you\u2019ll have interactions with people. And sometimes your brain thinks something else happened where you gotta sit back and go, \u2018Wait, wait, wait.\u2019 There\u2019ll be times where I\u2019ll have an interaction with somebody and, bro, it\u2019s like my brain hallucinates the entire interaction. So there\u2019s a chance that I just hallucinated that entire interaction.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the end, Sean seems cool with Khamzat now and Khamzat is cool with Sean.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike Chimaev said,<\/a> I made him the most money he\u2019s ever made on a fight,\u201d Strickland concluded. \u201cYou\u2019re welcome, Chimaev.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Was the Sean Strickland and Khamzat Chimaev rivalry real, or was this just the latest example of fighters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,266293,1396],"class_list":["post-662501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-328","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}